Women of Color
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Taking What’s Mine
By Alex-Quan Pham * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* My childhood was spent speaking tiếng...
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Forearm-Ankle Skin Visibility: The Measure of Muslim Women’s Relationships
By Hina Tai I was standing near the entrance of the bus station, waiting for my parents to pick me up. The next day was Eid...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: The Ethics of Reproduction
It is hard not to be in a state of rage when I re-member this painful herstory and simultaneously reflect upon the contemporary reality that...
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“Think about your daughter!”: Motherhood and the Shaming of Sex Work
So, of course, I was bothered by the ever-so-tired (as in played out) but still so very dangerous shaming of sex work that is motivated...
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Poetry: “Madame X–” by Lauren K. Alleyne
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...
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“Mixed” Existence: On Rachel Dolezal and Alleles
By Daphne Taylor-García This article reflects on the colonial/racial divide, Rachel Dolezal’s proclamation, “I don’t give two shits what you guys think…I do consider myself...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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“Race and gender are not the same!” is not a Good Response to the “Transracial” / Transgender Question OR We Can and Must Do Better
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis & Aishah Shahidah Simmons to Visit Berlin
Heidi R. Lewis, TFW Associate Editor and Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, will teach her course entitled Hidden Spaces, Hidden...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence report’s release is timed to support mobilization for a National Day of Action on Black Women...
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Ganesh and Kali: Seeing Myself in a Feminist Artist’s Goddess of Destruction
By Chaya Babu The other day, I furiously penned a blog post after two simultaneous attacks that I am not the right kind of woman. I...
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Highway of Tears: A Review
I first viewed the stunning documentary Highway of Tears, directed by Matt Smiley and produced by Smiley and Carly Pope, during a week in which...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: POETRY BY WAFA SIMPORE
~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us...
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Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice
By Corrie Ellis Judy Bonds, an inspirational woman activist leader of the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, U.S., echoed the following quote...
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An Open Letter to Trans Communities and our Co-Conspirators
In the wake of this year’s Trans100 event, we write this letter with grave concern for the current state of the trans movement,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Cultural Plagiarism
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
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The Star Studded White Savior Industrial Complex in Haiti
By Natalia Cardona Patricia Arquette’s recent remarks during the Oscars made for strong debate among feminists of color and white feminists in the U.S. Arquette...
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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review...
